See that first forward slash in your task? that’s going to tell it to look at the root of the filesystem. if this folder lives in your workspace folder, you’ll need to make the path /home/ubuntu/workspace/yourfolder.

We currently do not support cron jobs within Cloud9 workspaces. The way to proceed would be to get a Cloud9 premium plan which allows you to create SSH workspaces, and then connect to your Amazon instance with that SSH workspace.

Technically, your workspace runs a full Ubuntu Linux VM, so you can use cronjobs as you would on other Linux systems. Please be aware that Cloud9 workspaces may be paused or restarted from time to time, even for premium users. This will interrupt your jobs, so we do not recommend to use Cloud9 for this purpose. While Cloud9 will store your files, allow you to write code, run code, and debug it, we do not recommend using it as a hosting service. Cloud9 is a top notch development environment, bu…

I personally haven’t used it on a hosted workspace, just on my own linux servers. I haven’t had a need for it yet but am familiar with the process of using it. I’m only going on the assumption that it should work as normal atm. If that assumption is incorrect then I apologize.